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For Bob Haraden,Volunteering Was His Next Career................................................... 2 Sagely Reconnecting with Dirt and Plants...... 4 Belgrade Library A Winner for All Ages......... 5 No Arguments: Birthdays Rock....................... 6 Easy Rhubarb the ‘Pie Plant’............................ 8 Recipe Box..................................................... 8 Police Chief Crawford on Community Policing..................................... 10 Local Senior Centers & RSVP....................... 11

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For Bob Haraden, Volunteering Was His Next Career

By Lisa Reuter

Bob Haraden, who started delivering Meals on Wheels 29 years ago, says

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the group can always use another driver.

ob Haraden gave three years of service to the U.S. Navy in the early 1940s, and 30 years to the National Park Service. He retired in 1986 and moved to Bozeman, where he’s given nearly as much time, 29 years and counting, to volunteering for Meals on Wheels.

A man of long commitments in service and in life, his most enduring has been his marriage to Adelaide Cleaves Haraden. On April 27, they celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary. In June, they’ll both turn 94.

When asked about that longtime pledge, he shrugged his shoulders.

“It turned out we’re both compatible mostly. Sometimes I’m right, and sometimes she thinks she’s right.”

“Bob’s quite a guy, very energetic and delightful to be around. I have trouble keeping up with him,” said Gary Matthews, Haraden’s partner for the past year on the Tuesday morning Meals on Wheels run through northwest Bozeman. The two have known each other for 42

years, since Haraden was assistant superintendent at Yellowstone National Park and Matthews worked for Mountain Bell. Matthews is 75.

“Bob has got a great sense of humor. When we started volunteering together, I pointed out that he’d outlived his first two volunteer partners, and I hoped we could break that trend. He laughed.”

“We take turns driving,” Matthews continued. “The one who drives is the one who gets there first on Tuesday mornings to load up the meals.

Bob has a heck of a work ethic.”

He always has. When he recalls his years with the National Park Service, he speaks mainly of how lucky he was to end up working for the agency, and luckier still to spend most of his career in the parks instead of in regional administration offices.

Haraden grew up in Bar Harbor, Maine, in the shadow of Acadia National Park. He served in the Navy in World War II, just as his dad had done in World War I.

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Haradens have always defended America at sea. During the Revolutionary War, descendant Jonathan Haraden was a privateer captain of two ships who captured many British prizes. Jonathan Haraden’s brother Nathaniel was commanding officer of the most famous Navy ship of all, the U.S.S. Constitution, from 180103. During World Wars I and II, the Navy deployed destroyers named for those Haradens, but Bob Haraden spent his time on the U.S.S. Gilbert Islands, an escort carrier that provided air cover for the invasions of Okinawa and Borneo. His war service as a radar technician was honored in June 2012, when he was one of 94 Montana World War II veterans to participate in the first Big Sky Honor Flight to Washington, D.C. After the war, he earned a degree in civil engineering from the University of Maine. He thought he’d end up working for a highway department, but his visit to a 1949 university job fair changed his life.

“The director of the Maine state parks had come to campus looking for one person: an engineer,” he said.

“We talked and the idea appealed to me, and that’s how I got into

the parks. Throughout my career, I always looked forward to Monday mornings and going back to work.

I just can’t imagine anything else I would rather have done.”

He joined the National Park Service in 1955, serving first as an engineer in the agency’s Eastern design office in Philadelphia. Among his early jobs was scouting out camping and picnic sites on the island of St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The 15,000-acre site became the nation’s 29th national park in 1956.

Three years later, Haraden became chief park engineer at Rocky Mountain National Park.

“I was a little worried about bringing Adelaide west,” he recalled. “She was from Maine and grew up in suburban Philly. I wasn’t sure things were going to work out at all. But as soon as she saw the Rockies, she said, ‘This is home.’”

The couple would spend time at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in California, Natchez Trace Parkway in Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee, and Big Bend National Park in Texas. But the Park Service also sent them to three more parks in the Rockies – Grand Teton and Yel-

lowstone, where he served as assistant superintendent, and Glacier, where he was superintendent from 1980-86.

“Every time we moved it was a new adventure, and that made for a full life I think.” In his living room are pictures from that career, including one of Haraden, Sen. Alan Simpson and then-Vice President George H.W. Bush touring Glacier.

Haraden and Adelaide moved to Bozeman in 1986. “We knew Bozeman from our Yellowstone days,” he said. “It was where we came to shop, and two of our three sons went to MSU. We’ve been very happy here, and Bozeman’s been good to us.”

Almost immediately, Haraden began volunteering for Meals on Wheels. “It’s an easy way to give back to the community, and I meet so many interesting people.”

For five years he was a volunteer guide at Yellowstone’s Museum of the National Park Ranger at Norris, and

he helped out the cross country ski program at Eagle Mount for 12 years.

“I’m not good enough to work there now,” he said with a hearty laugh.

He’s been an usher at his church, Hope Lutheran, and still helps out some when the congregation serves meals at the Community Café.

Haraden is modest about everything.

He wouldn’t have said much at all about volunteering if he hadn’t been pressed.

But when he gave it some thought, his reflections were noteworthy.

“Volunteering is probably as important as being in a paid job.

It makes the world go around, you know. What would things be like if nobody volunteered for anything?

You’d have to find your own seat in church, and there’d be nobody to take up the offering. I see some people who don’t volunteer, and I feel sorry for them in a way. I think volunteering is enjoyable, and you get to meet people and make new friends.”

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Sagely Reconnecting with Dirt and Plants

By Lisa Reuter Parkhaven Activity Director Gordon Ross and resident Mona Andrews put their heads together to plant carrots.

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ohni Nelson’s dented red ’67 Ford F100 is parked next to Manhattan’s Parkhaven Retirement Community

where five, waist-high steel stock tanks filled with soil sit amid gravel walkways.

Resident Hank Hancock, 95, who was chief of the Montana Highway Patrol a few decades back, is already at work at one of them, putting up the pliable, fine metal fencing his pea vines will ultimately climb.

One tank over, resident Vangier Bartle is telling master gardener volunteer Deborah Nash about the big farm she once had in Virginia as they use their fingers to make shallow rows in the fine dirt. In a few minutes, they’ll rip open a packet of radish seeds.

At another planting bed, master gardener volunteer Teresa Browning and resident Mona Andrews share pet stories as they sow carrot seeds. Beyond them, another half-dozen residents are enjoying the early April sunshine and watching intently.

It’s quite a bit of activity Nelson has stirred up, and the slim, blond

plant wizard is busiest of all, moving between the groups to hand out additional seed packets, consulting her bulging binder of garden plans to suggest where the next furrows should go, and serving as waiter.

“Time for a snack,” she says as she offers a plate of crisp green snap peas, yellow and purple baby carrots, and pieces of French bread topped with butter and radish slices to gardeners and onlookers. “This is just what will be coming up in a few weeks’ time.”

Her listeners munch and smile, their eyes devouring the garden scene.

An hour later, Parkhaven Activity Director Gordon Ross and Hancock are watering the newly planted seeds.

The watchers and gardeners move indoors for lunch, and Nelson packs up her truck to head off to a similar group across town.

“See you next week,” Browning and Nash call out to their new gardening buddies. Like Nelson, they’ll be back weekly through the fall, planting more seeds, weeding and finally harvesting their crop – or whatever the residents of Parkhaven haven’t eaten in the meantime.

Another season of Sage Gardeners is off to a fine start.

Jonquil “Johni” Nelson, a master gardener herself, started the nonprofit in 2010, intending to reconnect retired ranchers, farmers and gardeners around the Gallatin Valley with the dirt and their roots.

“I grew up on a farm in Indiana, and my grandfather had a huge farm,” she said. “When he went into a nursing home, it broke my heart to see him separated from his land and plants and dirt. Then the light bulb went on.”

Around the world, scientific studies were pointing out the health benefits of keeping adults gardening. Digging in the dirt provided physical exercise and sparked pleasant memories of gardens past; what the gardeners grew stimulated their appetites and improved their nutrition.

Someone just had to lay the groundwork to create easier-to-work, raised beds and provide the seeds, tools and plans to get things growing. Nelson did that.

She planted the first Sage Gardeners garden at Parkhaven five

years ago and remains the organization’s single employee, director, fundraiser and organizer.

For her, spring, summer and fall are full with planning and planting, gardening and visiting and days spent in the sun.

Come winter, she corresponds with and visits all of her gardening clients. They review how their gardens grew and what they want to plant in spring. She presents canning and cooking demonstrations, showing new ways to preserve and cook all the fresh produce. She talks to groups of would-be volunteers and visits with the local nurseries and hardware stores that support her with donated supplies. And she spends hundreds of hours writing grants, and the follow-up reports that go with them, to area and national foundations for the money needed to purchase the tanks, lumber, dirt, seeds, organic fertilizer and watering supplies.

In their first five years, Sage Gardeners volunteers created 100 raised gardens at retirement, assisted living, skilled nursing home and

MSU Extension master gardener Deborah Nash, left, and Parkhaven resident Vangier Bartle share garden stories and consider where to put their next row.

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Belgrade Library A Winner for All Ages Staffers at the 2015 Best Small Library in America include, from left, Director Gale Bacon, Youth Services Librarian Rebekah Kamp, Outreach and Programming Coordinator Vanetta Montoya and Public Services Librarian Keiley McGregor.

B Hank Hancock, 95, former chief of the Montana Highway Patrol, has tended the Sage Gardeners raised beds at Parkhaven for five years.

affordable housing complexes around Gallatin County, at the Eastern Montana Veterans Home in Glendive and Bozeman’s Cancer Support Community Project, and at the private homes of dozens of individual older adults who could no longer manage in-ground gardening.

This year, Nelson’s scores of volunteers, including schoolchildren, area

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master gardeners and Montana State University students, will help replant all of those and install 20 more. Just like last year, those new projects can’t serve all of the area gray-haired gardeners eager to get their hands dirty again.

There’s a waiting list. As Sage Gardeners grows and more funding comes in, Nelson hopes to shrink it. Learn more about Sage Gardeners at SageGardeners.org.

Give Big to Area NonProfits May 3

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age Gardeners was among 100 area nonprofits to benefit from the Bozeman Area Community Foundation’s first Give Big Gallatin Valley Day last year.

This year, on Tuesday, May 3, the foundation will hold its second Give Big Day, inviting people to again become budding philanthropists by going online or visiting donor lounges across the area to give gifts of $10 and up to benefit 133 area nonprofits.

The goal is to raise $300,000 for 133 nonprofits. Look for the Give Big Gallatin Valley special section in the Sunday Daily Chronicle for details.

Nelson is delighted to be participating again. “Give Big increased my number of individual donors by 100 percent,” she said. “It’s hard for a small organization to connect with individual donors. Give Big is really good at getting the word out for us.”

ecause the Denver Public Library Association meets only every other year, the staff of the 2015 Best Small Library in America had to wait a year to get full recognition for the honor.

It came the second weekend in April, when three staffers from the Belgrade Community Library visited the Colorado capital to accept the award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Library Journal, which praised the Belgrade Library for its “determination to surpass its resource challenges with partnerships to offer the service needed by its rapidly growing community.”

“A lot of Montana librarians were there to cheer us on. It was wonderful,” said Director Gale Bacon. Accompanying her were Rebekah Kamp, youth services librarian, and Vanetta Montoya, the library’s outreach and programming coordinator.

The award is still a big deal at the library, where a sign proclaiming the achievement is mounted behind the checkout desk. Everyone who comes in sees it, and in Belgrade about half the town’s 12,700 residents come in every month.

The building is a bright, colorful, welcoming hub of programming, activity and services for all ages. Bacon and her staff keep things in circulation with help from the library trustees and foundation and more than 80 volunteers. There’s not a job the volunteers don’t help with, from painting walls and shelving books to reading at local day-care centers as part of the library’s “Stories to Grow” program, Montoya said.

Programs popular with Belgrade’s older residents include the Wonderlust continuing education program, cosponsored by First Interstate Bank; twice a week Fitness with Friends workouts; a tax preparation service offered with Rural Dynamics; a monthly memory loss and brain injury support group; and Public Services Librarian Keiley McGregor’s Book-a-Tech service offering one-on-one computer training.

“I help a lot of people learn to use the computers, iPads, Nooks and Kindles their children give them at holidays,” McGregor said. “These days, libraries play a pivotal role in providing access to technology as well as the latest best-sellers.”

Much of the national award’s $25,000 prize went to purchasing laptops, iPads and durable, multicolored AWE computers for the preschool set, Bacon said.

“I have a very bright staff that likes to work outside the box,” she said. “My job is to support them with whatever resources they need.” A big part of her job is the grant writing and networking that have fueled a 200 percent growth in library programming, attendance and recognition, including the Montana Library Association’s Library of the Year Award in 2010 and the Montana State Library’s Excellent Library Services Award in 2014.

Other library staff members are Kathleen Godfrey, Dyan Shelton Grace, Carolyn Simser and Aaron Canen, who recently replaced Katie Ramstead. The library is at 106 N. Broadway, www.belgradelibrary.org.

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No Arguments: Birthdays Rock

By Lois Stephens

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celebrate another birthday soon, and I expect an onslaught of cards pointing out and gently poking fun at my advanced number of years. I look forward to all my cards, whether they remind me that I am well-seasoned or they just reassure me that someone has thought of me today and wishes me well. Birthdays should remind us that indeed, today we are kings or queens for the day.

Last year, one of the cards I received read, “Birthdays are like Outhouses: Not exactly pleasant but we’d be in deep doodoo without them.” I still scratch my head over that one.

I LIKE birthdays. I look forward to a special day where more than likely someone else cooks a nice dinner for me, I may get a few presents, cowork-

ers use the event as an excuse to bring treats to work, and I generally receive lots of cards in the mail.

I anticipate the thought of chatting with siblings on the phone and, in truth, I rather like the attention. It isn’t every day that others do something a little out of the ordinary in honor of the fact that I exist.

I don’t particularly like the thought that I’m officially one year older, and I have trouble accepting just how many birthdays have come and gone, but that doesn’t prevent me from enjoying them. I don’t feel like a 60-something old woman. Then again, how do I know what a 60-something person ought to feel like? I feel just fine, not at all old and worn out.

When I was a child, I figured people had some years on them when they

reached the horrifying age of 45. They were ancient relics at 50 and tottering on their last legs at 60.

Now that I’ve passed that sixtieth milestone by several years, I can happily report to youngsters that no, we are not decrepit old fossils at 60-plus, and we still have plenty of spark left despite the wrinkles and gray hair.

Another birthday card I received advised me, “Inside every old person is a young person wondering what the heck happened.” I can vouch for that one. I still think of myself as young, believe it or not.

I am surprised at the number of people who think birthdays are something to dread. Why? Sure, we’re officially another year older, but if you think about it, every day we are a year older than this day a year ago.

Dreading a birthday is like dreading Memorial Day because each Memorial Day comes a year after the one we celebrated last. I don’t know anyone who dislikes Memorial Day or the Fourth of July or Thanksgiving, unless of course unwanted relatives plan to show up looking for free turkey and all the trimmings. Any annual holiday that we generally look forward to reminds us that one more year has come and gone, but that doesn’t diminish our pleasure in the day itself.

We need to handle birthdays the same way. It’s our special day, an occasion to celebrate ourselves with people we care about. Pish posh if we’re another year older.

If we live long enough, we all get old. Celebrate that fact. Revel in all we have done, what we have accom-

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plished, what we have discovered from the inevitable mistakes we all make, and look back on a life welllived. Enjoy the day, eat cake and ice cream with gusto, and indulge in favorite treats. Why not?

I enjoy stretching the special day out into several days, which becomes possible when cards start dribbling in a week or so before the actual day.

I may have lunch with a few friends somewhere around the actual birth date. We celebrate at work on or around the date, and my sister prepares me a birthday dinner even if we don’t get together until a month or so before or after the fact. This allows me to spin out the celebration and enjoy my special day two or three or four times over the course of a few weeks.

Who could ask for more?

Birthdays let us reflect on our lives and recall fond memories of other birthday celebrations. Our special day

also allows us to realize how we have grown and changed through the years.

As one of my birthday cards reminded me, “Before you can be old and wise, you first had to be young and foolish.” I passed the young part long ago. The foolish part may be with me still, but I am old and somewhat wiser than three decades ago.

At least I’ve matured, I’ve led a unique life that no one else has experienced in the same way I have.

I deserve to celebrate that fact with great glee. I earned these gray hairs, and as Will Rogers once said, “I’ve traveled a long way, and some of the roads weren’t paved.”

If your birthday bothers you because you don’t like the thought of aging, just pick a favorite age and stick with it. But for goodness’ sake enjoy your special day and milk it for all it’s worth. After all, it only comes once a year.

Lois Stephens brings personal experience of the aging process to Prime Magazine. She enjoys writing about her observations of becoming a member of the senior citizen age group. She lives and works in Virginia City.

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Easy Rhubarb: the ‘Pie Plant’

Recipe Box

By Jan Cashman

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randmothers in the northern United States called rhubarb the “Pie Plant.” Rhubarb pies taste wonderful (strawberries are often added), but you can make many other desserts with rhubarb.

I make a simple rhubarb sauce by dicing the rhubarb, cooking it in a small amount of water until soft and stirring in sugar (½ cup or so per cup of rhubarb). Serve warm as a side dish or use as a delicious ice cream topping. A friend gave me another old-time recipe called Rhubarb Shrub that her mother used to make.

With its large leaves and tall stature, rhubarb can also be used as a focal point in your perennial flower bed.

History: Rhubarb (Rheum) is native to central Asia. The Chinese have used the roots for medicinal purposes for 5,000 years. In 1271, on one of his trips to the Orient, Marco Polo found it and brought it back to Europe, again for medicinal use. In 1770, Benjamin Franklin sent rhubarb to North America to be used as a medicinal for digestion, circulation and pain relief. The French realized the stalks were edible in the 1600s.

Nutrition: Rhubarb stalks are an excellent source of calcium, and contain vitamins K, C and A and other minerals. The red varieties contain more antioxidants than the greenstemmed. But beware, rhubarb

leaves are poisonous; they contain high levels of oxalic acid.

Types: There are 60 species of rhubarb and many hybrids, but only a few varieties are grown for sale in garden centers. Chipman’s Canada Red is the variety most available to us; it is sweet with red stems. Many gardeners and cooks believe redstemmed rhubarb is sweeter than the green-stemmed varieties.

Cultivation: Easy-to-grow, rhubarb should be planted in well-drained soil in full sun. Choose the location carefully because a rhubarb plant can live in the same spot for 25 years or more. When planting, amend soil with compost or other organic matter.

Rhubarb is sold as “crowns” or root divisions. Plant the root just below the ground’s surface. Fertilize the plant in spring with a wellbalanced fertilizer and give it plenty of water. Keep the area around the plant weed-free. Don’t harvest for the first year or two after you plant to allow roots to mature. I break off the plant’s tall central seed head so all the plant’s energy goes toward stem production and not seed.

Rhubarb is one of the first plants to harvest in spring. Do not cut the stalks. Pull them so you don’t leave a place for disease to enter.

Plant a rhubarb plant (just one will give you lots). It’s deer-proof, easy, good to eat (if you add sugar) and good for you!

Jan Cashman has operated Cashman Nursery in Bozeman with her husband, Jerry, since 1975.

Grease the Wheel, But with Which Oil?

By Hannah Stiff

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a foundation is the strength of a building, cooking oil is the muscle of a good meal.

A liberal dash of olive oil perfects a sauté. Bubbling butter bakes everything better. Coconut oil is the new cure-all.

Which oil is best? It depends who you ask. We started with Lindsay Kordick, chef extraordinaire and Bozeman registered dietitian. Variety is key, Kordick advised.

“I personally use a variety of oils for cooking, and I recommend that my patients do the same,” Kordick said. “All oils contain a variety of fats, such as saturated, polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats, and there are health benefits associated with most types of these fats.”

A well-rounded diet involves eating a mix of fruits, veggies and proteins, and a range of oils. Big range, big benefits, Kordick said. While the range is important, knowing which oil to use when helps create the most flavorful meals.

“Choosing a fat for cooking should depend on several factors, including flavor and smoke point,” she said. “The smoke point of a fat is the temperature at which it will start to break down, altering the flavor and also causing the fat to lose some of its nutrient value.”

Flaxseed and walnut oils have very low smoke points and should not be used in cooking; instead use them as a drizzle or dressing. Beloved olive oil is a great companion for many dishes. But it doesn’t have a high smoke point and should not be used over high heat. For high-heat cooking, try peanut oil or safflower oil.

For taste, consider the source of the oil.

“Walnut oil and sesame oil will bring nutty flavors to your meal,” she said. “So be sure you are pairing them correctly for taste.”

For health, consider reducing butter use. The delectable standby is high in saturated fats. Research from the Mayo Clinic shows that saturated fats elevate blood cholesterol levels, and the American Heart Association says eating foods that raise “bad cholesterol” increases your risk of heart disease and stroke.

Oils often contain good fat, such as monounsaturated fat prevalent in olive and peanut oils. According to the American Diabetes Association, when monounsaturated fats are substituted for saturated fats – butter and lard – they can help improve blood-cholesterol levels. The Times of India reports that using mustard and olive oil in cooking helps prevent high choles-

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terol and improve good cholesterol in the blood.

And coconut oil, much heralded of late, most certainly benefits.

“Coconut oil is high in saturated fats,” Kordick said. “However, research has shown that it is not likely to raise cholesterol levels like animal-based saturated fats will.

Medium-chain triglycerides are found in high amounts in coconut oil. These fats are not absorbed and digested in the same ways other fats are, and may have some additional health benefits.”

Consult a physician before making big diet changes. And check out Kordick’s recipes for easy ways to add new oils to your diet.

Lemon Chia Seed Dressing

Makes 3/4 Cups

1/2 cup fresh squeezed lemon juice 1 tsp lemon zest 1/4 tsp salt 1/4 cup lemon-flavored olive oil Dash ground white pepper 1/4 tsp sugar 1/3 tsp dry mustard 1 tsp chia seeds

Strawberry and Feta Salad with

Mint Walnut Pesto Serves 4

Combine all ingredients in a covered jar and shake well to mix. Place in refrigerator overnight to allow flavors to combine. Shake prior to using.

Nutrition Info per 1 Tbsp: 42 calories, 5 g fat, 1 g carbohydrate, 45 mg sodium Recipes and photos courtesy of Lindsay Kordick: from her blog Eight Twenty, www.eat8020.com

1-1/2 lb fresh strawberries, washed, stemmed and quartered lengthwise 1-1/2 oz crumbled feta cheese 3 Tbsp crushed walnuts 5-6 baby spinach leaves (on the larger side), stemmed 12 fresh mint leaves 1/2 lemon, juiced 1 tsp honey 1 tsp walnut oil In a small food processor, combine walnuts, spinach, mint, lemon, honey and olive oil. Mix until a smooth puree is formed.

Put strawberries and feta cheese in a bowl, then add pesto and toss to coat. Cover and refrigerate for one hour prior to serving.

Nutrition Info per 3/4 cup: 137 calories, 7 g fat, 4 g protein, 13 g carbohydrates, 4 g fiber

Lindsay Kordick has been a registered dietitian with Bozeman Deaconess Hospital for more than six years. She is also a Certified Exercise Specialist and writes a blog featuring recipes based on her 80/20 principle: eating wholesome, healthy meals 80 percent of the time and indulging a bit, 20 percent of the time.

Old-Fashioned Rhubarb Shrub

Recipe Shared By Jan Cashman

1½-2 cups diced rhubarb 2 cups diced bread (any kind) 1 cup sugar ½ cup butter Place rhubarb and bread cubes in bottom of baking pan. Top with sugar and butter. Bake at 350 degrees for about 1 hour.

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two-thirds of the way through training that baby-boom of officers.

Q: What does community policing look like today in Bozeman?

Police Chief Crawford on Community Policing

By Lisa Reuter

Bozeman Police Chief Steve Crawford talks to a class. (Bozeman Police Department photo)

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his month, Steve Crawford starts his second year as Chief of the Bozeman Police Department. A 22-year Bozeman police veteran, he has been captain of the patrol division, been on the Special Response team, served as a supervisor for 12 years, been a detective with the drug task force, headed the detective division and served as a patrol sergeant.

Prime writer Lisa Reuter checked in with him last month to see what he’s working on now, and what’s on his mind. Our conversation, recorded last month, will continue in next month’s Prime, when Chief Crawford talks about issues the department and city are looking at in the next couple of years. Some comments have been shortened for length.

Q: How was your first year as chief?

A: It’s been a very busy, very good year. The response from the public and from within the department has been very positive. It’s been an opportunity to advance some objectives and projects we had underway, carry on some of the work in progress and identify some new goals and objectives and move forward on those.

Q: What were some of the objectives you moved forward?

A: We completed implementation of an electronic citation program that allows our officers to be able to issue citations in their patrol cars on their computers rather than having to handwrite them. It creates some efficiencies, and helps officers handle more calls in a given time period.

We’ve also implemented something that’s been on the back burner, changing a sworn officer position to a civilian crash investigation position. One of the advantages is we now have an employee who specializes in that one area. Because it’s not a sworn police officer, it frees up other sworn officers to be able to respond to emergencies.

Q: What are the projects and goals you’re working on now?

A. We’ve been working for the past year to get to full staff. We’ve hired 16 new police officers, and that’s in a department that is authorized to have 65. A fourth of our force is new. That’s been a big challenge, first in recruiting, hiring and selecting quality personnel. Then there’s the training period, which is pretty intensive for the trainee and the trainers. We’re about

A. Community policing means slightly different things depending on what community you’re in. For Bozeman, my philosophy is that it truly boils down to a partnership with the community when working on resolving public safety and quality of life issues.

What does that look like? Whether you’re working with one resident or a whole neighborhood, if there’s an issue, we work as partners to solve it and make things better. It’s not us vs. them policing.

It’s that we’re all in this together. I like to say that the department is a part of the community, not apart from it. That’s community policing to me.

Another way that looks is, it’s important for my officers to be approachable and have interactions with community members that are not just enforcement contacts. That it’s not people seeing us only when something bad is happening.

We do that through a number of things: Coffee with a Cop, Shop with a Cop, National Night Out, our Civilian Police Academy and other community outreach efforts. They help us build those relationships so that when someone has an issue, they know they can call us. . . .

Night One of Citizens Police Academy, we share Sir Robert Peel’s Principles of Policing, developed in Britain in the 1850s to describe an ethical police force. He suggested that the police just happen to be paid to do what all of us should do at some level, which is watch out for our fellow community members. We’re here to help others in their times of need and to keep the community safe. But we can’t do that alone. We’re in a partnership with the community.

Q: In terms of “can’t do it alone,” what would you like people in Bozeman to understand about policing in America these days? What we’ve seen in the

news the past year doesn’t match up with the experience we have in Bozeman, which is a good thing. But what are we seeing on the news?

A. Nationally this is a challenging time.

There have been some polarizing “use of force” incidents that have brought forward a dialogue about some police forces and use of force issues. With regard to some of the pivotal shootings and some incidents that didn’t necessarily involve a shooting, what we see on TV is something we can all can learn from. And one of the things to learn is, it’s a path we don’t want to go down. At the core it all goes back to trust. What we have to do is maintain the community’s trust.

In the last 18 months, there’s been a spectrum of incidents including some outright bad acts. They should be addressed accordingly. In others, ultimately, it may be determined that it was a reasonable use of force, but because of the climate in which the incident occurred or the way it was covered, it gets conveyed that it was unlawful or excessive. Then you get a negative public perception of that event even though it may turn out the use of force was correct.

The challenge for policing, for chiefs, is to communicate with our community and educate people on why a certain thing may happen, and also hold people accountable when they do an unlawful act. . . .

We all have families here. We live here. We love and care deeply about Bozeman. We want to keep people safe, and keep Bozeman vibrant and a safe place for people to be.

I want my officers to be able to help resolve an issue in the long-term. It’s not just about going to a call and handling what’s going on and then bouncing to the next one. It’s about helping to resolve whatever that underlying issue is if we can, or at least giving that person some resources to resolve their issue in the long-term. It goes back to that sense of partnership with the community.

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Belgrade Senior Center 92 East Cameron Avenue • (406) 388-4711 www.belgradeseniorcenter.com Email: belgradesrcntr@bresnan.net Executive Director: Cheryl Juergens, PH.D.

ACTIVITIES ■ ~VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION DINNER - GET YOUR TICKETS NOW~ Big Sky Western Bank of Belgrade is once again sponsoring the Belgrade Senior Center Volunteer appreciation dinner on Thursday, May 5th at 6:00 p.m. The staff and Board of Directors wish to graciously thank Big Sky Western Bank in Belgrade for sponsoring this special event for the volunteers who contribute many, many hours to the Belgrade Senior Center. Our precious volunteers are the heart of the organization and we could not operate without their contributions.

You have made it possible for us to let over 100 volunteers know how much we love and appreciate their dedication and contributions to our community. Thank you to Peter and his staff at Big Sky Western Bank – Belgrade for sharing your time and generosity with all of us at the Senior Center.

All individuals that have volunteered at the BELGRADE senior center are encouraged to stop by the front desk to pick up your free ticket. During the last fiscal year, 125 volunteers, contributed many hours of time, dedication, and hard work to make our center a successful, fun place to be! THANK-YOU! THANK-YOU! THANK-YOU! ■ Volunteer positions available at the Belgrade Senior Center: Helpers for the kitchen during noon meals plus fundraiser volunteers are needed.

Please call 388-4711 or stop by the Senior Center for more information.

■ NeedleAires: Thursdays, May 5, 12, 19 & 26 - 1:00 p.m. – Anyone who loves to knit, crochet, stitch or shares a passion for handiwork is welcome to join this friendly group! Many supplies are provided to make items for sale to the public as an ongoing fundraiser for the Belgrade Senior center. The Senior Center gift shop currently has some wonderful gifts available including potholders, dishrags, dishtowels, scarves, rugs, throws, baby blankets, bags etc. for sale at our facility, which is located at 92 E. Cameron Ave. ■ “Big Buck Bingo”: Wednesday, May 4, 11, 18 & 25 – 1:00 p.m. - Bring $$’s and play Bingo to win more money. Buy in is $1/card, which is split for the five games played; Blackout is $1/card, winner takes all!

■ WSpaghetti Dinner: Friday, May 20th, 5:00–7:00 p.m. – Bring your family to the Belgrade Senior Center on the 3rd Friday of each month for either Spaghetti Dinner or a Fish Fry! Open to the Public! No reservations required. We will no longer be hosting both a spaghetti and fish fry dinner every month. Dinners will alternate each month; Spaghetti will be on the agenda for May. ■ RED ROCKERS! - Tuesday, May 10th, 11:30 a.m. - Enjoy a fabulous meal with your friends at the Corner Café in Four Corner. Please call 388-4711 to get your name on the dinner list.

■ Mother’s Day Dinner: Friday, May 6 – 12:00 Noon – Sign up for a special meal to honor all mothers. Bring a memorable “Motherhood” story to share about your mother or a story about raising your own children. Call early to get your name on the list!

■ Monthly Board Meeting: Monday,

May 23rd, 1:00 p.m. – The Board of Director’s meetings are open to the public.

■ Baby Shower for Terra Spotts: Wednesday, May 11, 11:00 a.m. – Our exercise instructor, Terra Spotts will soon be having twins! Her last day of teaching classes will be Friday, May 13th. Please join us for a baby shower welcoming her twins into the world on Wednesday, May 11th after class after class at 11:00 a.m.

SUPPORT SERVICES ■ Hearing Aid Maintenance – 2nd Tuesday of the month, during a full week – May 10th ■ Blood Pressure Checks – 3rd Wednesday, May 19th, 12:30 p.m.

ONGOING ACTIVITIES HEALTH & EXERCISE SERVICES ■ Bake Sale – 3rd Thursday - 10:00 – 1:00 p.m.

■ Bingo – Wednesday – 1:00 p.m.; 2nd & 4th Saturday – 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.

■ Exercise & Strength Training Monday, Wednesday & Friday: 9:00 a.m.

■ NeedleAires – Thursday – 1:00 p.m.

■ Pinochle/Card Games - Thursdays – 9:00 a.m. – Fridays – 12:30 p.m.

■ Spaghetti Dinner/Fish Fry – 3rd Friday – 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. (Alternating Months) ■ Fish Fry – 3rd Friday - 5:00-7:00 p.m. (Alternate Months) ■ Yoga – Tuesday – 9:00 a.m.; Friday – 8:00 a.m.

NUTRITION PROGRAM ■ Congregate Meals at center Monday through Friday, 12:00 Noon ■ Frozen Meals available for pickup at center Monday through Friday Call 388-4711 ■ FREE Birthday Dinner Celebrations on Thursdays during the month of your birthday for members of the Senior Center.

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- Beef Tips, Mushrooms with Noodles - Bar-B-Q pulled pork, Tater Tots, Coleslaw - Seafood Salad, Chicken Salad, Deviled Eggs - Chili, Baked Potato

6 - MOTHER’S DAY LUNCH Roast Beef, Mashed

Potatoes & Gravy 9 - Chicken Tenders, Oven Fries 10 - French Bread Pizza 11 - G U E S T C O O K

D AY Ranch Pork

Chop,Smashed

Potatoes, Fruit Crisp 12 - Oven Fried Chicken with

Stuffing 13 - Spaghetti with Meat Sauce 16 - Baked Salmon, Rick Pilaf 17 - Meatloaf, Mashed Potatoes &

Gravy 18 - Chicken Salad Wraps,

Caesar Salad 19 - BIRTHDAY

CELEBRATION Pork Roast, Mashed

Potatoes & Gravy 20 - Beef Strognaff,

Egg Noodles 23 - Chicken Fried Steak,

Mashed Potatoes & Gravy 24 - Ham, Macaroni & Cheese 25 - Roast Beef, Mashed

Potatoes & Gravy 26 - Pork Chops, Hash Brown

& Gravy 27 - Sloppy Joes, Potato Salad 30 - Closed For Memorial Day 31 - Roasted Turkey, Baked Potato Note: all meals include Salad, Dessert Bar, Roll & Drink

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The Bozeman Senior Center will be closed on Monday May 25 for Memorial Day. EVENTS ■ Meet and Greet with our New Executive Director, Tuesday, May 3 at 10:30am. Come enjoy coffee and cookies, meet and welcome Shannon Bondy, ask questions, and share thoughts and ideas.

■ Give Big Gallatin Valley. Tuesday May 3, 11am-1pm. We are participating again in “Give Big Gallatin Valley,” a community-wide giving day hosted by the Bozeman Area Community Foundation. We are partnering with Befrienders and RSVP to host a donor lounge. Come show your support and (hopefully) donate! Refreshments provided by Highgate Senior Living.

■ May is Older Americans Month.

This year’s theme for Older Americans Month is ““Blaze a Trail” We’ll be giving you the opportunity to “Blaze a Trail” all month long. Enter our “Trailblazer” writing competition, attend the Older Americans Day Dinner, come listen to the GeriActors present Just For Laughs every Friday before lunch and much more!

■ Writing Contest Trailblazer Story Competition. Throughout May, in honor of Older Americans Month, we want to celebrate how our members are “blazing trails”-giving back to the community, starting new careers or hobbies, redefining aging, or anything else that says “trailblazer.” Submit your stories by Friday May 20. More details at the front desk.

■ Older Americans Dinner. Wednesday May 25 at noon. We invite everyone to come celebrate this special day

807 North Tracy • (406) 586-2421 • www.bozemanseniorcenter.org Shannon Bondy: shannon@bozemanseniorcenter.org (Executive Director) Deb Earl: deb@bozemanseniorcenter.org (Associate Director)

when we honor our Older Americans.

Free meal for those 80 & older. Special recognition for those 90 & older. This is a beautiful celebration. Please call to sign up!

■ 2nd Hand Rose Pre-Memorial Day Thrift Sale! Wednesday, May 25-Friday, May 27 from 10am-2pm. We are extending our 2nd Hand Thrift Store & offering a special week long sale in our downstairs meeting room.

■ Mother’s Day Celebration. Wednesday May 11 at noon. This day is for you, Moms! Please call to sign up!

■ Sage Gardeners, Tuesday, May 10, 1pm, a Gallatin County non-profit senior gardening organization, invites you to come hear about our work, past and present projects, and how our mission of reconnecting seniors to their gardening roots can help you in many ways such as volunteering, gardening support, and assistance with raised/ accessible gardens, beds and containers.

■ Bluebird Talk Tuesday, May 17, 1pm.

Experience the excitement as Lou Ann Harris and Janne Hayward share interesting facts and beautiful images of bluebirds.

■ Area IV Agency on Aging Spring Visit, Wednesday May 18, 11am – 1pm. Staff available to answer your questions on community services for seniors.

■ Adventure Travel Theater, May 18, 1pm, “Stories from Jordan.” Across the Jordan River from Israel is a country loaded with interesting history including the amazing City of Petra carved out of red stone canyon walls over 2,000 years ago.

40 minutes of brilliant slides and narrative.

■ Introductory Pottery with JK Moyles.

May 6 & 13. Instruction/assistance and all materials provided. The first session covers hand building & the second session covers glazing. The cost is $25.00 (please pay in advance).

■ Movie Afternoon, Tuesday, May 24, 1:00pm. Nominated for 3 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best

Actress, “Brooklyn,” is about a young Irish immigrant navigating her way through 1950s Brooklyn. Popcorn provided.

■ Region Travel: Australia! Tuesday, May 17 at noon. Join us as we celebrate Australia this month! Been there? Born there? Lunch on us if you answer ‘yes’ to either question!

■ Cinnamon Rolls. Friday, May 13 at 9:30am. $1.25 ■ Blood Profile Screening. Wednesday, May 11 from 8am-10am. Call for appointment.

TRAVEL ■ Snake River Trip: June 14 – 17.

Motorcoach to Clarkston, WA for an exciting jet boat trip traveling 90 miles on the Snake River. Spend one night in a rustic cabin. Cost: $720.00 per person, double occupancy.

■ Playmill Theater, West Yellowstone, Tuesday, June 28. Great new theater production: “Singing in the Rain.”Cost: $59.00 per person (includes bus fare & tickets).

■ Big Horn Canyon Boat Trip: Monday July 11. Motorcoach to Big Horn Canyon National Recreation Area. Picnic lunch and a 2 hour narrated boat ride through gorgeous canyons. Cost: $110.

■ Bannack Days, Sunday, July 17: Motorcoach to Bannack State Park to enjoy a fun day at the annual Bannack Days event. Cost:$45.00 per person.

■ Ousel Falls Day Trip, Tuesday, July 26: Motorcoach to Big Sky to enjoy a beautifully built easy trail, lunch at the Corral, and ride up Moonlight Basin. Cost: $43 ■ Playmill Theater, August 11, 2016, “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.”

Cost: $59.00 per person (includes bus fare & tickets). Yellowstone Park, Lake Lodge, Friday, August 26: Motorcoach through Yellowstone, enjoy lunch and a

narrated boat ride. Cost: $85 per person.

■ Music Ranch, Livingston: Thursday, July 28 (Jimmy Fortune) and Thursday August 18 (The Bellamy Brothers): Travel south of Livingston, by motorcoach, to the Music Ranch for a very fun evening of live music. Leave the Center at 5:00 p.m., light dinner on your own at the Ranch, then wonderful music Cost: $80.00 (includes transportation and ticket) ■ Music Cities of Tennessee featuring Memphis and Nashville, Sept. 20 – 25, Cost: $2799.00 per person.

■ Discover Tuscany, October 21 – 31.

Spend 7 nights in one hotel in Montecatini, one in Venice. Cost: $4599.00 per person, double occupancy if deposit of $510.00 in by April 1.

■ Scotland: May, 2017: More information will be available soon. Get your name on the interested list.

■ Tizer Gardens / Trolley train in Helena: No date set as yet. Get on the interested list.

STOP BY THE BOZEMAN SENIOR CENTER OR VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE DETAILS ON OUR EXCITING TRIPS!

SERVICES ■ Computer Assistance with Jack, Paul, Jay, & Molly. Please call for more information & to sign up.

■ Medical Equipment available for those 50+.

■ The Hearing Aid Institute of Bozeman offers free services: clean & check, adjustments, batteries, repairs, & wax check. Wed. May 18, 11:30am1:30pm.

■ Foot Clinic by appointment. May 16 & 23.

■ Free blood pressure checks every Wednesday 11:30am-1:00pm.

■ Association for the Blind meets

2nd Thursday 1:30pm. Open to anyone who is visually impaired.

SUPPORT SERVICES ■ Forgetters & Friends: 2nd Wednesday of each month at 1pm.

■ Widowers Support Group meets 1st & 3rd Fridays 10:30am.

■ Gallatin Valley Multiple Sclerosis Self Help: 3rd Wednesday Sept-May 3:00pm. Call Gretchen, 624-6161 with questions.

HEALTH AND EXERCISE ■ Mondays: 8:30am Strength Training, 9:00am Gentle Aerobics, 10:00am Core, 10:30am Aerobics Plus, 11:30am Gentle Tai Chi. ■ Tuesdays: 10:30am Yang Tai Chi, 11:30am Beg.Yang Tai Chi, 12:30pm Strength Training, 2:00pm Arthritis Fitness.

■ Wednesdays: 8:30am Strength Training, 9:00am Gentle Aerobics, 10:00am Core, 10:30am Aerobics Plus, 1:00pm Balance, 1:30pm Gentle Yoga.

■ Thursdays: 10:30am Yang Tai Chi, 11:30am Gentle Tai Chi, 12:30pm Strength Training, 2:00pm Arthritis Fitness.

■ Fridays: 8:30am Strength Training, 9:00am Gentle Aerobics, 10:00am Core, 10:30am Aerobics Plus, 11:30am Beg. Yang Tai Chi. SOCIAL ACTIVITIES ■ NEW TIME Adult Coloring: Wednesdays 9:00 am.

■ Bingo: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1:00pm.

■ Book Club: Monday May 15, 10:30am.

■ Bridge: Wednesdays & Fridays, 12:45pm.

■ Drumming: Tuesdays, 9am ■ Duplicate Bridge: Mondays, 12:30pm.

■ Creative Writing: Tuesdays, 10:00am.

■ Cribbage: Tuesdays, 1:00pm.

■ The Last Best Geri-Actors Readers’ Theatre: Fridays, 1 pm.

■ NEW TIME Line Dancing: Tuesdays, 10:30am ■ Oil Painting: May 2 & 16 at 1:00pm

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with instructor May Mace.

■ Pinochle: 1st and 3rd Mondays 1pm. Wednesdays 1pm. Thursdays 1pm.

■ Red Hat Ladies Luncheon: Tuesday, May 17, 11:30am, Panda Buffet ■ Scrabble: Thursdays 9:30am.

■ Singing Souls: Tuesdays 1:30pm, $5/session.

■ Watercolor Painting: Wednesdays 9:30am.

■ Woodworker Shop open to members only 8:30am-4:00pm.

■ Wood Carvers: Mondays 9:30am.

NUTRITION SERVICES ■ Free Birthday Dinners celebrated Wednesdays only!

■ Meals served Monday - Friday at Noon. Please call ahead to sign up ■ Meals-On-Wheels delivered Monday - Friday to homebound.

EXTRAS ■ Second Hand Rose Thrift Store: 10am-2pm, Monday-Friday. Bring donations of clothes, household items, books, games, crafts, & more anytime between 8:30am-4:30pm, Monday-Friday.

■ Our library currently needs gently used, sellable book donations. No encyclopedias or Reader’s Digests please. Thanks!

VOLUNTEER ■ Meals-on-Wheels is looking for volunteers to deliver meals in Bozeman. Please call Sue, 586-2421.

■ Foot Clinic is looking for current or retired nurses to help at our monthly foot clinic service!

Please call 586-2421.

■ We are looking for a few more volunteers to help with Landscaping on Monday and/ or Friday mornings. Come join the crew that keeps the outside looking beautiful. Please call Deb at 586-2421.

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Please make reservations for lunch so that we can have an adequate amount of food!

BOZEMAN LIONS CLUB Drop off your prescription and nonprescription eye glasses and dark glasses, as well as hearing aids and cell phones in the collection boxes at the Bozeman Senior Center, the Manhattan Senior Center, the Three Rivers Senior Citizens Club in Three Forks, and the Gallatin Gateway Community Center

For more information,contact Richard Reiley at

406-388-7840

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Hollowtop Senior Citizens Broadway St., Pony, MT • 685-3323 or 685-3494 ■ Serving Harrison, Pony, Norris and surrounding areas ■ Fee: $5 a year. Meals $3.50 members and $5 for guests ■ Dinner served on Wednesdays all year long and on Mondays October – May ■ Lending library and medical equipment

Manhattan Senior Center 102 East Main Street, Manhattan, MT • 284-6501

■ Fee: $10.00 a year ■ Meals: $3.50 over 60 years of age, $6 under 60 ■ Noon meal is served Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday; call Monday – Friday before 10:00 am to reserve a seat ■ Pinochle: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday after lunch Center Hall and kitchen are available for rental. Hall rental $50, kitchen and hall $75. Cleaning deposit of $25 and key deposit $10. Call Susan for more details to reserve the space.

Park County Senior Center 206 South Main Street, Livingston, MT • 333-2276 www.parkcountyseniorcenter.com • Open Monday - Friday 9-5 Executive Director: Heidi Barrett

■ Please call Senior Center for news and events.

Three Rivers Senior Club 19 East Cedar Street, Three Forks • 285-3235 Director: Jean Farnam • 570-0800

■ Annual Dues: $10 for folks 50 years or old-

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er. Applications are available at the Center.

■ Meals: $3.50 over 60 years of age, $6 under 60 Meals are served every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Reservations are required one day in advance.

Call 285.3235 and leave a message.

■ Birthday Celebration: Once a month either on 2nd or 3rd Thursday.

■ Extensive lending library of books, videos and jigsaw puzzles. Medical equipment such as walkers, shower seats, crutches, are also available. Call Jean Farnam for lending information.

ACTIVITIES ■ Sunday Games: 1st & 3rd Sunday of the month from 1:00-5:00 pm – Scrabble, cards, etc.

■ Pinochle: Wednesdays at 1:00 pm ■ Bingo: Thursdays after lunch ■ Meals on Wheels: Delivered to the homebound ■ Information on the Three Forks bus for seniors and disabled folks - call Jean.

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807 N. Tracy Ave., Bozeman, MT 59715 • 587-5444 Debi Casagranda, Program Coordinator (dcasagranda@thehrdc.org) 111 South 2nd, Livingston, MT 59047 • 222-2281 Deb Downs, Livingston Program Coordinator (debdowns@ rsvpmt.org) • www.rsvpmt.org RSVP OF SOUTHWEST MONTANA UPDATES ■ MONTANA PBS: Looking for someone to help with customer service, front desk viewer, support, donor and office services. As part of the development team, this person is essential in maintaining good relationships with customers/viewers from across the state, PBS due paying members and staff through friendly front desk receptionist phone coverage to include assisting callers with a variety of requests.

■ GALLATIN VALLEY FARM TO SCHOOL: Garden explorer summer camp is looking for volunteers to help teach children about gardening and cooking. No prior experience is necessary, just a willingness to learn and work with children. Summer camp dates are July 11-15, July 25-29 and August 1-5. Hours are 9-3 ■ AMERICAN RED CROSS: Volunteers needed for 3 different areas. Blood Drive Ambassador needed to welcome, greet, thank and provide overview for blood donors. Team Leader volunteers who can help recruit, train and schedule Donor Ambassadors and Couriers. Community Outreach Specialist who would seek out locations to set up a table to sign

up prospective volunteers and/or blood donors.

Excellent customer service skills needed. Training will be provided.

Flexible schedule.

■ AMERICAN RED CROSS: Donor Ambassador needed. This would be someone who greets and assists blood donors at various blood drives. Blood drives can be held at the Bozeman Red Cross center or in the community. At the center the blood drives are on Friday from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm.

Looking for a volunteer who can work one or more 4 hour shifts per month, preferably someone who can commit to the same schedule each month.

■ HELP CENTER: A volunteer who is computer literate and interested in entering data into a social services database.

Also volunteers needed to make phone calls to different agencies/programs to make sure database is up to date and make safety calls to home bound seniors.

■ JESSIE WILBER GALLERY @ THE EMERSON: Volunteers needed on Wednesday’s, Thursday’s, and Friday’s to greet people at the main desk, answer questions and keep track of the number of visitors. Only requirement is enjoying people.

■ HABITAT FOR HUMANITY RESTORE: Volunteers needed for gen-

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■ BOZEMAN DEACONESS HOSPITAL INFORMATION DESK: Make a lasting impression for those who enter Bozeman Health by greeting, providing help and delivering flowers.

■ BOZEMAN DEACONESS HOSPITAL: Volunteers are needed at the Care Boutique located in the Cancer Center. Responsibilities would be helping customers and keeping merchandise straightened up.

■ BOZEMAN DEACONESS HOSPITAL ESCORT: Volunteers needed to escort patients through the hospital along with paperwork and equipment between departments.

Please call Debi at RSVP today at 5875444 for more information on these and other opportunities.

RSVP PARK COUNTY VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES ■ HANDCRAFTERS: Visit this group on Thursdays 1-2PM making new friends as you work on crocheted or knitted caps

and scarves so every child at Head Start can be warm every winter. We are also making gifts for the prenatal classes and baby hats and afghan’s for the Hospital’s newborns. Sewers needed to make simple pillowcases for our soldiers overseas.

■ LOAVES AND FISHES: Would like to have volunteers who can prepare a dinner meal. Help feed the hungry and test out your own recipes.

■ SENIOR CENTER: has a call for Rag

Cutters who meet on Thursdays at 1pm to cut unsold clothing into rags. Proceeds go the Center when sold.

■ MEALS ON WHEELS: is in need of substitute drivers to deliver meals to seniors in their homes.

■ FOOD PANTRY: is looking for volunteers to help with distribution on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

■ BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: Be a positive role model to a child for only a few hours a week.

Contact Deb Downs, RSVP Program Coordinator 111 So. 2nd St. Livingston, MT 59047 Phone (406) 222-2281 Email:debdowns@rsvpmt.org

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